Friday, February 01, 2013

“The terms ‘assault weapon’ and ‘assault rifle’ are often confused,”
they say. “According to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing
in the Stanford Law and Policy Review, ‘Prior to 1989, the term
‘assault weapon’ did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a
political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category
of assaults rifles.’”

The Green Berets, who use the weapons, point out the M4A1 carbine is a
U.S. military service rifle – it is an assault rifle.”
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Accurately
and succinctly put. However, they've heard all this before and
are
either just too stuck on the stupidity emanating from their Progressive
cloister or, like Chucky Schumer
[Schumer’s False Fire] is captured by the brilliance of his own
false analogies..

Comments:

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows was the title of a position paper they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18, 1969. This founding document called for a “white fighting force” to be allied with the “Black Liberation Movement” and other radical movements to achieve “the destruction of US imperialism and achieve a classless world”: world communism.” — Ahem

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The gentlemen are wrong. The term was invented in WWII by the Germans when they first issued the new Sturm Gewehr (Assault Rifle) to their troops.

Rog, question, if you are firing your M-16 over a sand bag berm in defense of your outpost. Is it still an "assault weapon". In 5 years in Uncle Sams Misguided Children I never heard that term. -Anymouse